Try rereading the post.
Lt.Kyle
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All one culture is not realistic.
If Discovery's Klingon makeup had changed as subtly as the TNG makeup did over the years, no one would've noticed or cared.
Not lately. Travel restrictions, you know?
Maybe. The point is that change is a part of Trek's history, big and small. Treating one as worse than the other strikes me as incongruent, at best.
Having humanoid aliens is not realistic, right out of the gate.
But Star Trek is not hard science fiction; it has many fantasy elements, including humanoid aliens. We accept that, and go with it, because it's fine.
But it's actually quite theatrical. Being so choosy about what theatrical tropes to accept is therefore... odd.
But Star Trek is not hard science fiction; it has many fantasy elements, including humanoid aliens. We accept that, and go with it, because it's fine.
But it's actually quite theatrical. Being so choosy about what theatrical tropes to accept is therefore... odd.
The updates were minimal during TNG. TMP laid the foundation for the look of all the other series and movies. But the producers of discovery decide to throw it all out and make them a bunch of bald headed big giant heads. With a gray skin tone.
You guys can be apologists all you want but I know the real reason for the change.
TNG's Klingon design was far more established than the original look, after three 26-eps-a-year series with a Klingon as a main character. Really any Klingon that looks dramatically different to Worf will not be accepted if there's an implication that Worf must look dramatically different as well.
Haha. I would agree but all we saw season one were bald headed big heads wearing fancy gold gilded armor with noses that looked nothing like previous klingons....
Accept the changes to Klingon makeup from 1979 to 2005 weren't all that subtle; so you proceed on a false assumption to begin with.
https://images.app.goo.gl/tYFLS4whnYp2Agw88
Well, tell us!
The changes from top to tng weren't thst extensive. I mean std had purple klingons lol. They also had double sets of nostrils. Where th heck did that come from? Lol.
April and Kyle have nothing on X-Men's Trask.
Colt... probably about par.
The change in Klingon makeup from TOS/TAS to TMP was so radical that ENT felt it needed a three-part episode to explain it.
How dare they change the Klingons... in 1979
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That's not a change in the design of Klingon makeup, that's different people looking different.
Ego my friend...it was all creative Ego...
Exactly. They need to put the purple/grey, bald giant head quad nostril in there. Guess which one is gonna stick out like a sore thumb???
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